| David Haig | |
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| Born | 20 September 1955 Aldershot, Hampshire, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Actor, Writer |
David Haig (born 20 September 1955) is an Olivier Award-winning English actor and FIPA Award-winning writer. He is known for his versatility, having played dramatic, serio-comic and comedic roles, playing characters of varied social classes. He has appeared in top roles in stage productions all over the West End and has done numerous TV and film roles over the past 20 years.
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He appeared in the 1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral and had a secondary lead in the BBC television sitcom The Thin Blue Line playing Inspector Grim, the inept foil to Rowan Atkinson's Inspector Fowler. In 2002 he played the brother of Four Weddings' co-star Hugh Grant in the romantic comedy Two Weeks Notice, alongside Sandra Bullock. In 2007, He appeared in a Comic Relief sketch called "Mr. Bean's Wedding" as the bride's father, reuniting with his Thin Blue Line co-star Rowan Atkinson.
He is one of only two male actors to have performed an Alan Bennett Talking Heads monologue on television, the other being Bennett himself.
Other TV work includes Doctor Who story "The Leisure Hive" (1980); Blake's 7 episode "Rumours of Death" (1980); Campion story "Sweet Danger" (1990); Inspector Morse episode "Dead On Time" (1992); and Cracker. In the 90s he appeared in the successful TV series Soldier Soldier.
He appears in the Richard Fell adaptation of the 1960s science fiction series A for Andromeda, on the UK digital television station BBC Four. Haig appeared in a television-film adaptation of his own play My Boy Jack which was shown on ITV on 11 November 2007. It starred himself as Rudyard Kipling and Daniel Radcliffe as his son, John. In 2008, he appeared in the BBC film Dustbin Baby and The 39 Steps, an adaptation of the 1915 novel by John Buchan. He also appeared in the Midsomer Murders episode "The Glitch". In 2009 he appeared as 'Steve Fleming' in BBC TV's The Thick Of It and as 'Jon', husband to former MP Mo Mowlam in the hugely successful drama Mo opposite Julie Walters.
He also won an Olivier Award in 1988 for Actor of the Year in a New Play, for his performance in Our Country's Good at the Royal Court in Sloane Square. He toured England with the stage version of My Boy Jack, in which he played Rudyard Kipling and directed a production of Private Lives by Noel Coward which made a successful national tour in 2005.
Haig has appeared in several stage productions in London's West End, including Hitchcock Blonde at the Royal Court, Life X 3 at the Savoy Theatre, as the character "Osborne" in R. C. Sherriff's play Journey's End at the Comedy Theatre, and as Mr George Banks in Mary Poppins at the Prince Edward Theatre for which he received an Olivier Award nomination. He was also nominated for playing Christopher Headingley in a revival of Michael Frayn's comedy Donkeys' Years at the Comedy Theatre. Having appeared in the role of 'Pinchwife' in the comedy The Country Wife at the Royal Haymarket Theatre in London, he appeared in The Sea at the same theatre. Haig's next role was 'Truscott' in the Joe Orton black farce Loot at London's Tricycle Theatre from 11 December 2008 to 31 January 2009 and at Theatre Royal, Newcastle, 2 to 7 February 2009.
In 2010 he played the role of Jim Hacker in the stage version of Yes, Prime Minister[1] at the Chichester Festival[2] Gielgud Theatre, in London's West End from 17 September 2010.[3]
Haig was born in Aldershot in Hampshire. He currently lives in South London. He is father to five children and is a patron of SANDS, a charity which deals with stillbirth and neonatal death.